I HADN'T for a moment supposed that the London County
Council would be put off its stroke by the busybody lowbrows who consider that the Council's spending a penny of public 11°neY on works of art is an outrage against the taxpayer. A maximum of £20,000 a year is little enough for the government of the greatest city in the world to spend on sculpture and Paintings; and 1 hope that the scale of the Council's activity the arts will be greatly increased in years to come. Corn- „11 °f London, with certain other cities in Europe not a tenth the size London, this capital is still, in the matter of public Patronage s of the arts, a staunch citadel of philistinism. `success' of us not so wedded to the ideal of super-suburban „., . represented by Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, would has attacked the LCC proposal with a vehemence that ar,.,uld have been worthy of the fattest war-surplus millionaire, grateful. tiv , to the LCC for setting an example, however tenta- tively, to other public bodies.
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